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English · Romance · Contemporary
While I was bleeding out on the delivery table, Julian was screwing another woman.
He thought I was stupid. He thought he had me completely under his control.
Maybe he was just too confident in his Oscar-winning acting skills.
He let…
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English · Contemporary
At my engagement party, in front of all our family and friends, my fiancé, Ethan Carter, suddenly projected a massive, detailed Excel spreadsheet onto the giant screen.
"Chloe, since we’re getting married, we need to settle our…
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English · Contemporary
The day before our sixth wedding anniversary, I saw a notification pop up on Ethan’s phone. It was a delivery confirmation for a luxury diamond necklace.
I pretended I didn't see it. That night, I dressed up and met Ethan for our…
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English · Contemporary
I was scrolling through a post, and the description felt like a mirror image of my life.
"He works late until ten every night, smells like a strange perfume, and changed his phone password."
The comment section was filled with people…
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English · Contemporary · Inspiring stories
I had just wrapped up a domestic abuse case.
The victim was in tears, thanking me over and over again.
"Harper, if it weren’t for you, that monster would have beaten me to death!" Chloe sobbed.
"Even if I have to mortgage my house and…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The pregnancy test in my bag was still warm, fresh from the clinic, when Brenda threw my suitcase out of the front door.
Austin stood right next to her. He looked helpless, but he couldn't even look me in the eye.
"You see how it is,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband’s cute little secretary was crying and threatening to jump off the roof again.
All because I spent fifteen dollars on groceries without asking for her approval first. She claimed I didn’t respect her position.
That very…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At our company's anniversary gala, my husband’s secretary’s dog bit me.
In my panic, I threw the dog off me. But my husband, Ethan, yelled at me in front of everyone.
"Buster has been with Chloe for two years! How could you be so…
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English · Contemporary
Everyone could see the glowing countdown timer above my twin sister Clara's head. Everyone knew she was destined to die the year she turned eighteen.
Because of this, Clara was the absolute center of our universe.
The TV remote was…
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English · Contemporary
On our seventh wedding anniversary, Carter gave me a very special gift.
A divorce agreement, and a stack of printed Snapchat messages showing me "cheating."
In the photos, I was chatting flirtatiously with a college boy named…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend, Ethan, went missing after a wilderness survival trip on a deserted island.
I spent every single penny of my savings, searching for him like crazy, but found absolutely nothing.
Until two months later, on my way to work, I…
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English · Contemporary
My husband was sleeping with his company's intern.
He actually smuggled her into our apartment inside a giant suitcase just for some sick, kinky thrill.
In my past life, I woke up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water and…
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English · Contemporary
Three days before my wedding, I found out my brother and his family had moved into the master bedroom of my new house without my permission.
My mother said casually, "Austin has nowhere else to go. Let him have the master bedroom. You…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband is a famous "clueless boy-dad" influencer on TikTok.
Once, he actually forgot our daughter in a shopping cart at the mall and walked three floors away before realizing it.
Another time, he held the umbrella entirely over…
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English · Contemporary
I spent three years caring for my comatose boyfriend after a horrific car accident.
But the moment he finally opened his eyes, he grabbed my best friend's hand and called her "wife."
My best friend blushed, accepted the title, and…
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English · Contemporary
An emergency dispatch came in at midnight. An apartment building was on fire, with a couple trapped inside.
When I burst through the flames, I saw Samantha, my wife of seven years, lying naked and wrapping her arms around another…
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English · Contemporary
I was slacking off at work when I stumbled across a juicy Reddit thread.
The title read: [Gen Z Intern Exposes the So-Called "Most Employee-Friendly" Company.]
As I scrolled through the details, my brow furrowed. The description…
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English · Contemporary
I was Julian’s first love.
But after years of marriage, he started looking for younger girls who looked just like me.
When the car crash happened, Julian’s first instinct was to shield me with his body.
Outside the emergency room,…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend was supposed to meet my parents today, but dinner time had passed, and he was nowhere to be seen.
I sent three Snapchats and made two FaceTime calls. No response.
In the private room of the restaurant, my parents asked me…
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English · Contemporary
In the middle of the night, Buster, the dog who always kept me company while I collected plastic bottles, was hit by a car running a red light.
Looking at Buster lying in a pool of blood, my whole body went numb. Shaking, I dialed…
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English · Contemporary
Frank Vance’s seafood warehouse almost went under during the off-season last year.
Every restaurant on the wharf ditched him for other suppliers. I was the only one who stayed.
I kept a locked-in order of three hundred thousand…
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English · Contemporary
After the hospital chief's daughter suffered a sudden heart attack and fell into a coma, my wife hid the surgery time from me.
She wanted her medical school junior, Julian, to take my place as the lead surgeon so he could get promoted…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
My cousin, Tiffany, loved hooking up with random guys online and meeting them in person.
When she got assaulted, I begged her to call the cops. She refused.
When she got pregnant, I told her to get an abortion. She refused that…
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English · Contemporary
I worked my ass off for the company for an entire year. I closed an $80 million contract, but my year-end bonus was a measly $888.
Meanwhile, my boss Richard’s useless nephew, Chase, who did nothing but play video games at his desk all…
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